1N-PLURAL (尤指最后阶段的)困境,痛苦 If someone is experiencing something very unpleasant or emotionally painful, you can say that they are in the throes of it, especially when it is in its final stages. (尤指最后阶段的)困境,痛苦 [formal]
...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war. [+ of]
当时这个国家正处在内战最后的痛苦关头
...the agonising throes of transition.
过渡时期的煎熬
2PREP-PHRASE 正忙于…;处于…困境之中 If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it. 正忙于…;处于…困境之中 [formal]
The country is in the throes of a general election. [+ of]
该国正忙于大选。
Despite being in the throes of school exams, Tamsin made the long trek from Liverpool.
虽然还要忙着准备学校的考试,塔姆辛还是完成了从利物浦出发的漫长而艰辛的跋涉。
SYN in the midst of, in the process of, suffering from, struggling with